PHP basename( __DIR__ ) is returning _DIR_ on some servers
dir, filepath, php
Solution
`__DIR__` is introduced in PHP 5.3 . Double check your PHP version .
Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php
Problem
I'm hoping someone here knows the answer to this. I wrote a script that uses `basename( __DIR__ )` then uses an if file exist function. On my server this works fine, however on other sever it actually returns the word `_DIR_` instead of the file path. Did this change with a version of PHP or is there some other setting that makes it so this doesn’t work? Lastly is there a better way to get the path of the file? Here is the whole line I’m using: `define('NIFTY_CONSTANT', trailingslashit (WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/'. basename( __DIR__ ) ). '/lib/mdetect.php' );` (yes I know it's a WordPress function but this is not a WordPress question it's a PHP one)